AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 8/14/2015

Assets in actively managed ETFs increased by $129 million, or 0.6%, to $20.915 billion. There was one new fund last week as well as one closure so the total number of actively managed ETFs trading remained steady at 133.

Virtus launched an unconstrained bond which led the way in positive flows at the provider level with $123 million. State Street had positive flows of $69 million while PIMCO led outflows with $49 million followed by $24 million from First Trust.

At the category level, Global Bond led with $153 million of inflows which includes Virtus’ new fund. Outflows were dominated by $25 million from Alternative and $22 million from High Yield.

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Number of Active ETFs by Sponsor

Number of Active ETFs by Strategy

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